Tag: history

Canaan’s sacred wine and folk worship in the fields

Around the press, the team uncovered dwellings and courtyards that hint at an early village economy. The winemaking enterprise was likely community-based, tied to the cycles of agriculture and celebration. Megiddo’s residents were already part of a regional network that shipped jars of oil, grain, and perhaps even wine to Egypt and the wider Mediterranean world.

The ‘original iPad’ – 1,200 years before Apple

Turkish archaeologists have unearthed what Discovery News calls the 'Byzantine iPad." Dated to the 9th century A.D., the wooden tool was found among a shipyard...

All Moroccan Synagogues to be Renovated, Says King Mohammed VI

Morocco Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, Mayor of Fez and Secretary General of  Istiqlal Party Hamid Chabat, and security official...

Egyptian Mummy Gets a LEGO Heart at Cambridge Universtiy

An engineering student used LEGO to help restore an ancient Egyptian mummy case at Cambridge University. The 10th Century...

Egyptian Library is Sustainable Regional Role Model

This fall Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandria will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its opening. It is one of the region’s grandest...

Nobel Winner Orhan Pamuk Devotes a Museum to Ordinary Things

Paying homage to a slower time, Turkey's first nobel prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has immortalized the importance of...